[Bug c++/57709] -Wshadow is too strict / has false positives

[jason at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57709

Jason Merrill <jason at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Jason Merrill <jason at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Manuel López-Ibáñez from comment #4)
> "The option -Wshadow no longer warns if a declaration shadows a function
> declaration, unless the former declares a function or pointer to function,
> because this is a common and valid case in real-world code."
> 
> I think this is a useful heuristic also for member functions, no? I don't
> have time to work on this at the moment, but it would be useful to know
> whether the maintainers agree, so someone (Jan?) may start working on a
> patch.

That would be fine.  But it seems less important for member functions, since
there's much less chance of a local variable name conflicting with some random
function declared by an #include file.